This article proposes that in at least 11 different instances, the prophet Nahum alluded to the founding of Nineveh in Genesis 10 and the Tower of Babel account in Genesis 11. These allusions have not received scholarly attention even though they impact interpretation. These allusions place the events of Nahum in the context of God scattering the earliest Mesopotamians. The judgment in Nahum follows the pattern of Babel. God would come down from heaven, incapacitate a rebellion, and scatter the rebels. This hypothesis contradicts the widely-held belief that Nahum declared the annihilation of the Assyrians. As this article shows, the judgments in Nahum result not in extermination, but in dispersion. It is argued that Nahum begins the process in which a remnant from Assyria would be redeemed to worship God, as Isaiah had prophesied decades before.